Rose Cantine

Salon’s tech columnist, Farhad Manjou, has returned his iPhone despite his initial glowing review:
As a phone, it’s middling (or it’s fantastic and stuck on a middling network, which amounts to the same thing); it’s missing some key features; and even though many of these features could be added by third-party developers, Apple has locked it [...]

Here are the most recent stories I posted about the iPhone on Pajama Entrepreneur and Muniwireless:
Best iPhone review so far, plus iPhone guide
What’s really different about the iPhone
iPhone’s missed opportunities attracting hacker attention
Muni Wi-Fi drives Internet everywhere trend
I am not getting the iPhone until it comes unlocked and with 3G.

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What’s in my bag - 25 May 2007,
originally uploaded by Esme_Vos.

Back from London where it was very warm and pleasant. Here’s what was in my bag. The Nokia Wi-Fi gadgets (phone and [...]

I was in London this week and in Brussels a week ago attending conferences. I do a lot of work when I am traveling. I respond to emails, use Skype to return calls, write blog posts for Muniwireless, Pajama Entrepreneur and this website, and search for interesting stories on the Internet. So I need a [...]

I travel a lot to my conferences and other people’s events so I need to have a fast, reliable Wi-Fi connection while I am away from my home office. Unfortunately many hotels and airports have not figured this out. I am in Schiphol Airport, my favorite airport in the world, and KPN’s Wi-Fi service delivers [...]

The Wall Street Journal has an excellent article on how hotels, especially the ones that call themselves “design” and “trendy” in one sentence, transport their guests to the equivalent of technology hell: complicated ways to turn off the lights, TVs and iPods that don’t work, and the worst — poor or nonexistent wireless Internet access. [...]

Now that the EU has announced it’s clamping down on roaming charges, the operators are threatening to increase rates. Well, they can try, especially this summer when free mobile phone service via Blyk will be launched in the UK.
This is another reason why I love citywide Wi-Fi. If most of us can dump our [...]